The Conscious Creative

Stephanie Osborne

conscious (adj) aware of and responding to one’s surroundings. Welcome to The Conscious Creative podcast with Stephanie Osborne, your gorgeous audible guide for wholehearted creative living. The Conscious Creative is in essence, an embodiment. A collective movement exploring the landscape of creative nature and creating living. The intention within this space is to cultivate a holistic and refreshing approach to conscious creative expression, where all aspects of your creative heart will feel nourished and honoured. A space where your creative energy is invoked from a place of integrity, intention and instinct. Welcome to your wholehearted, conscious creative life. Welcome home.

  1. Harnessing Structure to Safely Nurture Your Creative Expression 📝✨

    APR 29

    Harnessing Structure to Safely Nurture Your Creative Expression 📝✨

    One of the most common mistakes I see my clients making before they join me in a one-on-one creative sanctuary, is overcommitting to a creative structure that doesn’t support their capacity. But what if structure when applied intentionally, can become the ultimate form of honouring and caring for our creative expression?   What if bringing structure to our creative practise is a way of holding a safe and sacred space for ourselves to be deeply heard and seen… a space for our hearts to be vulnerable and honest in a way that actually amplifies our creative self-expression?   Within this special compilation episode of “The Conscious Creative”, we will be touching on the stability, safety and soft strength that intentional structure brings to our creative process, which then allows us to embrace the vulnerability of our creative expression in a way that feels embodied and easeful.   💫 Episode 25.) Debunking The Myth That Structure Stifles Your Creative Flow (When Actually… It Amplifies It)   💫 Episode 31.) Shifting From Self-Criticism To Self-Compassion In Your Creative Practise   Join me for this light and insightful episode, where we’ll be exploring the gentle power that comes from harnessing intentional structure to safely nurture authenticity, trust and sincere self-compassion in your creative expression.   Love Stephanie xx   Journey Deeper With Stephanie:   Book Your “Orbiting Dreams” Session 🪐✨: https://StephanieOsborne.as.me/?appointmentType=86244631   Discover My Poetry Collection: https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/oncewerewounds   Email Subscription : https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/the-magnolia-diaries-subscribe   Website: https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/   Pinterest: https://nz.pinterest.com/stephanieosbornecoaching/   Contact: https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/contact   Episode 25.) Debunking The Myth That Structure Stifles Your Creative Flow (When Actually… It Amplifies It): https://theconsciouscreativewithstephanie.podbean.com/e/debunking-the-myth-that-structure-stifles-your-creative-flow-when-actually%e2%80%a6-it-amplifies-it/    Episode 31.) Shifting From Self-Criticism To Self-Compassion In Your Creative Practise: https://theconsciouscreativewithstephanie.podbean.com/e/nurturing-authenticity-courage-and-self-trust-in-your-creative-expression%e2%80%a6-even-when-it-feels-vulnerable/

    22 min
  2. Embodying Feminine Rhythms: Writing Your Sacred Story With Intention, Devotion and Supported Spaciousness ✍🏻🌷

    APR 1

    Embodying Feminine Rhythms: Writing Your Sacred Story With Intention, Devotion and Supported Spaciousness ✍🏻🌷

    After three years of supporting my clients to nurture a unique writing ritual that finally allows them to bring their sacred stories to fruition… I have nurtured a firm understanding of what doesn’t work.   🥀  I have seen how my clients tried pushing through the fear and creative resistance alone.   🥀 I have seen them force a way of writing and expressing that works against their natural creative rhythms, lifestyle and capacity.   🥀 I have seen them overcomplicate what their writing practise needs to look like, and what happens when productivity, perfectionism and pressure are prioritised above all else.   🥀 I have seen how exhausting and overwhelming it feels when the value is placed on what their writing process produces… instead of how it feels.   Understanding what doesn’t work has allowed me to extract, form and refine a new signature methodology; a collection of values and principles that support my clients to unlearn, redefine and embody a whole new way of writing that honours ritual, feminine rhythms and heart resonance; as well as softness, spaciousness and sustainability.   Join me for this special episode of “The Conscious Creative” where I will be sharing the four core values that support my clients to soften into safety and creative sanctuary, and bring the book they have always dreamed of writing to gentle fruition.   Love Stephanie xx   Journey Deeper With Stephanie:   Book Your “Orbiting Dreams” Session 🪐✨: https://StephanieOsborne.as.me/?appointmentType=86244631   Discover My Poetry Collection: https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/oncewerewounds   Email Subscription : https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/the-magnolia-diaries-subscribe   Website: https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/   Pinterest: https://nz.pinterest.com/stephanieosbornecoaching/   Contact: https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/contact   Episode 7.) Creating with Intention: https://www.podbean.com/eas/pb-8f7mv-160e213   Episode 42.) My Essential Approach to Unveil the Book Within You: https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-i4adc-1a5fe11

    31 min
  3. This Is The Best and Worst Question You Can Ask Yourself As A Writer 📝🍂

    MAR 18

    This Is The Best and Worst Question You Can Ask Yourself As A Writer 📝🍂

    There is a question that has come to my attention recently… one that can support you to begin pinpointing the triggers and pressure points within your creative process where control takes ahold. I’ve noticed this question comes up for almost all of my clients, and over the last couple of months I’ve become increasingly aware of it within my own writing practise as well.   Because if you want to get to a place in your practise where you can feel exactly where the words want to go and how it wants to be written; not by controlling but by trusting and channeling and allowing… you first need to nurture an awareness of where control and perfectionism are showing up in your practise, and it’s vital that you make this awareness a priority.   So in this episode I would love to give you a small starting point; a way for you to begin honing your awareness around where control and perfectionism are showing up within your practise, and how you can begin relinquishing the power and possessiveness they hold so that you can instead surrender to a process that feels more instinctual, spontaneous, intimate and gentle.   It all starts with a question… and I have come to appreciate that this is simultaneously the best and worst question you can ask yourself as a creative. You’ll have to tune into this episode to find out what it is 🧐📝✨   Love Stephanie xx   Journey Deeper With Stephanie:   Book Your “Orbiting Dreams” Session 🪐✨: https://StephanieOsborne.as.me/?appointmentType=86244631   Discover My Poetry Collection: https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/oncewerewounds   Subscribe: https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/the-magnolia-diaries-subscribe   Contact: https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/contact   Website: https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/    Pinterest: https://nz.pinterest.com/stephanieosbornecoaching/

    29 min
  4. My Essential Approach to Unveil the Book Within You 🖊✨

    MAR 4

    My Essential Approach to Unveil the Book Within You 🖊✨

    I have always believed in the immeasurable value of having a safe, sacred and sustainable space in which one can unfurl into a self-deepening creative practise. For my clients, this is often the last piece of the puzzle when it comes to bringing the book they dream of writing into fruition.   Within this episode of “The Conscious Creative”, I’m going to be sharing the essential framework I use with my clients to support them to nurture their own self-tentative writing practise, that finally allows their sacred self-expression {their storytelling} to emerge through them, by approaching the writing experience as a holistic one.   Our conversation will be touching on the four most common struggles my clients are facing when they come into our space together. We will then be delving into what it is they are truly seeking {and needing} from their writing experience, and exploring exactly how I support them to face the creative resistance that’s been holding them back, so they feel safe to bring the book they’ve always dreamed of writing, into the world.   If you’ve been stuck in a cycle of resistance that feels intense, frustrating and impossible to overcome… then this episode is for you.   Love Stephanie xx   P.S. The subtle vibration you might hear from about halfway through the episode is my neighbour, who decided to mow his lawn right in the middle of recording 😅🙏💕   Journey Deeper With Stephanie:   Book Your “Orbiting Dreams” Session 🪐✨: https://StephanieOsborne.as.me/?appointmentType=86244631   Discover My Poetry Collection: https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/oncewerewounds   Subscribe:   https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/the-magnolia-diaries-subscribe   Contact:      https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/contact   Website:     https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/   Pinterest:   https://nz.pinterest.com/stephanieosbornecoaching/

    24 min
  5. You Have All The Ideas, But No Idea Where To Start 🧐

    FEB 18

    You Have All The Ideas, But No Idea Where To Start 🧐

    There’s a book you dream of writing. You’re right there, on the precipice… ready to begin writing. You have all the ideas. All the passion and heart… but no idea where to start.   Here is where all of the clever reasons why “now is not the right time” might present themselves, partnered with all of the self-doubt around your capability, your talents and even your worthiness.   You need to find the inner strength {and the nerve} to give yourself permission. This is about finding the courage to cross over from inspiration energy… and into a grounded and sustainable writing practise that will bring your book to fruition. Because what will become of all your ideas if you never alchemise them at their ripest?   If this is where you are right now… with all of the ideas and no idea where you start, within this episode I’m going to be giving you some simple and practical suggestions for how and where you can begin your writing journey.   Love Stephanie xx   Journey Deeper With Stephanie:   Book Your “Orbiting Dreams” Session 🪐✨:          https://StephanieOsborne.as.me/?appointmentType=86244631   Discover My Poetry Collection:          https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/oncewerewounds   Subscribe:           https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/the-magnolia-diaries-subscribe   Website:           https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/  Pinterest:          https://nz.pinterest.com/stephanieosbornecoaching/ Contact:           https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/contact

    28 min
  6. The Real Reason You Struggle To Follow Through On Your Writing Goals, And Why 2026 Can Be Different 📝💖

    12/03/2025

    The Real Reason You Struggle To Follow Through On Your Writing Goals, And Why 2026 Can Be Different 📝💖

    How many ideas have you abandoned this year? How many drafts of the book you dream of writing are collecting dust in the corner? How many times have you reassured yourself… I’ll come back to it soon. I’ll make the time, when. I can’t right now, I’ll get to it one day.   We all have well-meaning intentions when we make promises to ourselves in January… but I also know how easily life can pull us in different directions, scattering our attention and diluting our energy until suddenly, here we are again in December, harbouring remorse and disappointment for the dreams that were left unanswered.   I see you standing here at the end of another year, with a soft dream in your heart. I see the energy of this dream radiating and cascading and orbiting around you, dancing in the delight of being close to you 🪐✨ But I also see your uncertainty… your apprehension.   When you look back at the last year your mind will take you back to all of the moments where you backtracked on your promise; the moments where you started writing and then stopped because the discomfort and uncertainty overwhelmed you; the moments where your practise burned you out and you were left feeling defeated and not good enough.   What if I told you that you’re not the problem… but your process is.   I want you to ask yourself honestly… how would it feel to arrive in January already knowing you have prepared a soft space for your dream to land? What could unfold from that place of intention and trust?   What if there is one small, intentional choice you could make right now {before January}, that could gift you the stability and assurance you need to move forward with your dreams in 2026? 🌟   Because the truth is, nothing changes if nothing changes. When January comes around and you tell yourself once again… this is the year I’m going to write the book of my dreams. This is the year I’m finally going to bring the words and stories of my heart into fruition.   What will actually be different if your approach is the same? Join me for this final episode of the year and uncover the real reason you struggle to follow through on your writing goals… and why next year can {and will} be different 💪🏻💫   Love Stephanie xx   Journey Deeper With Stephanie:   Book Your “Orbiting Dreams” Consultation 🪐✨: https://StephanieOsborne.as.me/?appointmentType=86244631 Episode 20.) “Slowing Down and Giving To Yourself During The Christmas Season: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0LDSvJFjn5ytcmW6MuHxoN?si=fbf947e8accc40bb Discover My Poetry Collection: https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/oncewerewounds Subscribe: https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/the-magnolia-diaries-subscribe Website: https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/ Pinterest: https://nz.pinterest.com/stephanieosbornecoaching/ Contact: https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/contact

    27 min
  7. The 3x Things Holding You Back From Taking Action on Your Writing Dreams ✍🏻️✨

    11/19/2025

    The 3x Things Holding You Back From Taking Action on Your Writing Dreams ✍🏻️✨

    Speaking as a gentle creative being who self-published my own collection of poetry after a four year creative journey… I have an intimate understanding of what it feels like to postpone and dance around the dream of writing your own book.   For three years I struggled to breakthrough a creative threshold that had me perched on the edge of potential. I had the desire to begin the action phase of my writing process… but I was still holding on to so much fear, resistance and anxiety around what this phase would look like, how the process would unfold, and what it was going to ask of me.   If you too are feeling caught in this liminal space in your own writing process, know that you’re not alone. You might be…   ✍🏻️ Overcomplicating what the process needs to look like.  ✍🏻️ Believing you need to to know the step-by-step process before committing. ✍🏻️ Questioning your capabilities, your worthiness, and wondering if you have the strength, tenacity and patience to do justice to your vision.   Are some {or all of these} sounding familiar to you?   Well within this episode we’ll be exploring how these thoughts and beliefs might be holding you back from taking intentional and integral action on your writing dreams… so that you can move beyond this state of hesitation and procrastination, and finally bring your vision to life 📖🖊💫   Love Stephanie xx      Journey Deeper With Stephanie:   Book Your “Orbiting Dreams” Consultation 🪐✨: https://stephanieosborne.as.me/schedule/13b860be/appointment/85229709/calendar/7198687?appointmentTypeIds[]=85229709   Discover My Poetry Collection: https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/oncewerewounds   Subscribe: https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/the-magnolia-diaries-subscribe   Website: https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/ Pinterest: https://nz.pinterest.com/stephanieosbornecoaching/ Contact: https://stephanieosbornecoaching.com/contact

    30 min

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conscious (adj) aware of and responding to one’s surroundings. Welcome to The Conscious Creative podcast with Stephanie Osborne, your gorgeous audible guide for wholehearted creative living. The Conscious Creative is in essence, an embodiment. A collective movement exploring the landscape of creative nature and creating living. The intention within this space is to cultivate a holistic and refreshing approach to conscious creative expression, where all aspects of your creative heart will feel nourished and honoured. A space where your creative energy is invoked from a place of integrity, intention and instinct. Welcome to your wholehearted, conscious creative life. Welcome home.